Yes, IMO he is.
I’m catching up, and will read theses threads more thoroughly later. Meanwhile, does anyone know if Beau is his given name? Is his first name Edward?
PING! (See also my previous post.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/fashion/08BEAU.html?pagewanted=all
Mr. Friedlander grew up in Redding, Conn., in what he called a “typical fractured middle-class family.” His mother died of a brain hemorrhage when he was 17, he said. When he was 25, his stepfather, a heavy drinker and smoker, died as well. As Mr. Friedlander put it, “He died of her dying.”
Mr. Friedlander traces his political awakening to St. Luke’s prep school in New Canaan, Conn.
“They liked to create inhibited young boys and girls,” he said, “and my inhibition never kicked in.”
After college at Bennington, he earned a master’s degree in English romantic literature at Oxford University and another master’s in Scandinavian literature at Columbia, before trying a short-term gig at Knopf. He started Context with his life savings — $10,000 — and with a dream of discovering and publishing great fiction. He set up shop in the dingy windowless cell he still occupies on lower Broadway with a single assistant, but finding the next Faulkner or Fitzgerald wasn’t so easy.
An Apology to Glenn Beck
Earlier today I posted something on Huffington Post that was taken down by the staff there. I can accept and respect their reasons for doing that.
The post was called “$100,000 For Glenn Beck’s Sex Tape.” It was supposed to simply make the point that the right does not hesitate to play rough with the left, and the right is far better financed. It was glib, but finally off-kilter and misdirected.
I was actually trying to mimic what I saw as the way right wingers go about these matters, and by misapprehending the way they do things, I went too far. (I offered to broker a deal for anyone who had damaging media pertaining to Glenn Beck.)
First, I owe Glenn Beck an apology. I crossed the line. On the off chance something comes in over the transom...scratch that; I’ll delete the email account. Problem solved.
I meant to tilt at a windmill in the post, and I planted my lance in the dirt.
A friend commented:
The people on the left who parrot and jerk their knees are just as much an obstacle to an outcome that benefits the maximum number of people as the “sheepies” are.
Well said, Struan. For me, it is back to the drawing board.
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